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Asia (continent)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 16197 Collections and/or Records:

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[Jesselton Sports 1 Jan 1909]. The long jump, 1909-01-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 18/4278
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. [Governors house on hill behind].

Dates: 1909-01-01
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Jessie Auchinleck & Anthony, 1940

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/19/58
Scope and Contents

107 x 141 mm. Two people standing in front of car outside the Public Subscription Library, probably at Simla.

Dates: 1940
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Jetty at Kemaman, Trengganu, 1927 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 16/33
Scope and Contents

60 x 40 mm. Showing the jetty at Kemaman, with waterfront houses in the background. Kemaman, the second largest town in Trengganu, is situated at the mouth of the Kemaman River, 75 miles south-south-east of Kuala Trengganu [i.e. Terengganu].

Dates: 1927 - 1929
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Jewelled casket presented by the Burmese to Ceylon, in Buddhist Temple, Kandy, 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303B/2
Scope and Contents

210 x 271 mm. General view of the jewel encrusted casket, shaped in the form of a dagoba and intended to contain the tooth relic in the Dalada Maligawa (Temple of the Tooth) at Kandy. A clipping from an unidentified paper, stuck into the album, gives details of the precious stones and metals contained in the casket and canopy. Photographer unknown, probably W.L.H. Skeen & Co.

Dates: 1899
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Jeweller], 1870 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/Y3029M/19
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This collection is mostly of albumen prints of photographs taken in Burma [Myanmar] in the later nineteenth century. Many are captioned and the captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles supplied by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. Many photographs have been identified as the work of Felix Beato. All of these photographs belonged to Rodway Swinhoe (1863-1927), who may have bought them after the closure of Beato's emporium in Mandalay c.1906. On...
Dates: 1870 - 1889
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Jewellery], 1881

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018C/2
Scope and Contents

307 x 140 mm. A display case containing rings, necklaces, earrings and other adornments.

Dates: 1881
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Jewellery], 1881

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018C/3
Scope and Contents

315 x 140 mm. A display case containing jewellery.

Dates: 1881
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Jewellery], 1881

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018C/4
Scope and Contents

313 x 142 mm. A display case containing jewellery mainly rings and earrings.

Dates: 1881
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Jeyi: another view of flooding, 1963

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/2/4/46
Scope and Contents

82 x 50 mm. negative.

Dates: 1963
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Jeyi: canal officer and assistant viewing flood damage, 1963, 1963

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/2/4/45
Scope and Contents

129 x 79 mm glossy print with 82 x 50 mm negative.

Dates: 1963
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Jeyi: damage caused by flooding from branch canal, Nov. 1963, 1963

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/2/4/43
Scope and Contents

157 x 100 mm glossy print with 82 x 50 mm negative.

Dates: 1963
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Jeyi: damage caused by flooding from branch canal, Nov. 1963, 1963

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/2/4/44
Scope and Contents

157 x 100 mm glossy print with 82 x 50 mm negative.

Dates: 1963
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Jeypore, a main street, 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022P/43
Scope and Contents

View looking along a commercial street in Jaipur, with traders’ premises protected by awnings at the roadside in front of a more substantial building.

Dates: 1901
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Jeypore, a man-eating tiger, 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022P/100
Scope and Contents

View looking through the bars of a cage towards the tiger.

Dates: 1901
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Jeypore, Maharajah’s tombs, 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022P/77
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: An album containing prints measuring 69 x 95 mm, with handwritten captions. The captions have been used as titles and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. The flyleaf is inscribed 'To Lieut. Colonel G.S. Walker, I.M.S. with compliments and thanks from the photographer. 1901.' George Lemon Walker (29.7.1849-31.5.1901) was born in Kingston, Ontario and served in the Madras Medical Service...
Dates: 1901
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Jeypore, ‘Palace of Winds’ and street, 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022P/177
Scope and Contents

View looking along the street towards the Hawa Mahal or Place of the Winds at Jaipur.

Dates: 1901
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Jeypore, the Galta [or Gulta] Pass, 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022P/38
Scope and Contents

View looking along the road through the pass, with scrub covered hills rising on either side and a village in the middle distance. Precise location unidentified.

Dates: 1901
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Jhelum River, Srinagar, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/19/37
Scope and Contents

52 x 52 mm. A boy seated on a boat on the river. Only the end of the boat is featured in the photograph.

Dates: 1939
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Jhelum River, Srinagar, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/19/38
Scope and Contents

52 x 52 mm. A woman seated with a dog on a boat on the river.

Dates: 1939
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Jhelum River, Srinagar, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/19/39
Scope and Contents

46 x 49 m. A dog seated on a boat on the river.

Dates: 1939
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Jhula bridge across the Spiti River, between Dunkar and Mani, 1866

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022C/27
Scope and Contents 295 x 240 mm. View of a similar bridge to that seen in Y3022/C4, with a footpath leading up a steep scree covered hill on the farther side. Bourne's dark tent can be seen in the left foreground. Dr Playfair parted company with Bourne at Dunkar, the outpost of British territory in the area, and for the remainder of the expedition the photographer travelled without European company. The village of Mani was two miles further on from the bridge seen here, ‘[My way] led, first of all, down to the...
Dates: 1866
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Fonds

Jim Chaplin slide collection

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022WWWW
Scope and Contents Chaplin took many slides between 1957 and 1966, in Africa, Asia, and Europe. His Asian collection, stored here, is in a small filing cabinet of four drawers (three for India, one for India plus a journey to turkey), mostly uncaptioned. There is also a small box of twenty nine (uncaptioned) slides. Accompanying the collection is a micro floppy disk (filemaker PRO 2.1 for Apple Mac) entitled 'Chaplin slide collection - African section.' and also a CD-Rom which may contain an excel list of...
Dates: 1957 - 1966
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Jin Jang, near the market, 1960 - 1962

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 23/145
Scope and Contents

Print and negative.

Dates: 1960 - 1962
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Jin Jang New Village, Kuala Lumpur, 1961

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/5/13
Scope and Contents

Set of ten 112 x 75 mm. glossy prints depicting village scenes

Dates: 1961
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Jin Jang New Village, Kuala Lumpur: CMS President Sir Kenneth Grubb (1944-1969) at the Clinic during his visit in Oct. 1955, 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/5/15
Scope and Contents

150 x 203 mm. glossy print with 110 x 153 mm. copy

Dates: 1955
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).